Chandelier and fixture.



W. LUMLE'Y. CHANDELIER AND FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 21.1912.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

Witnesses:

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WILFRID LUMLEY, OF CONNEAUT, OHIO, ASSIGNOR- TO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY.

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

GHANDELIER AND FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

Application filed December 21, 1912 Serial No. 737,938.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILFRID LUMLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Conneaut, county of Ashtabula, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chandeliers and Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to chandeliers and fixtures, and is more particularly concerned with the arms of such fixtures and the support of other parts therefrom.

The invention comprises various features of construction and various combinations and arrangements of parts which'can best be set forth by the description of a particular form of device embodying the invention, and I have accordingly described in detail an application of the invention in connection with an electric lamp socket supported from a chandelier arm. While, however, the invention extends to many of the specific features and details of the structure shown, it is not confined to th s structure and its details. but "can be otherwisecarried out and applied. In part'cular, it is applicable to the support of parts and structures other than lamp sockets or electric devices of any kind.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a view of the end portion of a chandelier arm with a lamp socket supported there from in accordance with my invention, one of the parts being displaced from its normal position. Fig. 2 is a view of the end portion of the chandelier-arm and of the socket, various parts being shown in section.

The arm 1 shown in the drawings is of ordinary cylindrical tubular form and contains wiring 2 for supplying current to a lamp socket 3. he wiring 2 passes out through an opening 4 in the lower side of the arm and downward to the socket. About the portion of the arm in which the opening 4 is located is an ornamental part 5 which as an opening 6 for the wiring. In the construction shown, part 5 is secured in place on the arm by a transverse member 7 which passes through holes in the walls of the arm and in the part 5, these holes being, as shown, about 90 deg. from the opening 4,

and the socket 3 is suspended from the arm 1 by supporting means secured thereto by this same member 7. As shown, a single yoke or stirrup shaped part 8 serves as the supporting means for the socket 3 and the lamp pended from the therein (not shoWn),'and any other parts associated with them. The link-like members 9 which form the sides of this yoke lie at opposite sides of the part 5 and the ends of the pin or bolt member 7 protrude from the part 5 and pass through round holes in the upper end of the links 9, so that the member 7 serves as a pivot for them. Nuts 10 having the form of ornamental ball shaped knobs are screwed upon the ends of the member 7. The socket 3 is secured to the part by a nipple 11 having at its upper end a flange 12 below which is a square portion which fits in an appropriately shaped hole in the bend of the part 8, the lower end of this nipple being screwed into the ordinary collar or flange 13 of the socket and, if desired, secured by the usual conically pointed set screw (not shown).

It will-be observed that in the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the socket is susend of the arm and that the part 5 has the form of a cap or ferrule which when in place forms a closure for the otherwise open end of the arm. As shown, the internal dimensions and. shape of the part 5 are such that though swelled or flared out elsewhere it fits or bears against the wall of the arm at or near its own open end and at the open end of" the arm. The opening 4 for the wiring has the form of a notch or slot in the wall of the arm at its open end, and the opening 6 in the part 5 is a round hole which comes opposite the inner end of the slot 4 ind so accommodates the wiring 2. In assembling the parts, it is very easy to pass the ends of the wires into the open end of the part 5 and out through the hole 6, and then to slide the part 5 on the end or the arm so that the wires shall come in the notch 4. After this the pivot member 7 with a nut 10 on one end (as shown in Fig. 1) can be passed through the ends of the members 9 and through the holes in the arm and in the part 5 soas to secure all these parts, and then the other nut 10 can be screwed on. The wires 2 may be carried on into the socket 8 either before or after the assembling of the parts is completed as just described.

It will be observed that shown present a they consist of which are simply, gather. These the structures good appearance, and that a very few simple parts easily and securely 'put toparts can be easily and cheaply made up from ordinary stock such as brass tubing or sheet brass by methods well known to those skilled in the art, or can, if desired, be readily cast, machined, or formed in any .other manner.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent ot' the United States, is

1. The combination with a chandelier arm having-an opening in its lower side for the exit of wiring, of an ornamental part surrounding the portion of said arm where the opening is locatechmcans at opposite sides of the arm and of saidornamental part for suspending from the arm the device to which said wiring is connected, and a member extending transversely through the arm and said suspension means and serving both to secure said means to the arm and to secure said ornamental part in place.

2. The combination with a chandelier arm or" a cap on the end of the arm, means at opposite sides of the cap for suspending a dependentpart from the arm, and a single means engaging and extending transversely through the arm and cap and through the suspension means above mentioned for connecting said suspension means and arm, and for securing said cap upon the end of the said arm.

3. The combination with a chandelier arm having an open end with a notch in one side thereof for the passage of wires of a cap or ornamental part which fits over and closes the open end of the arm and covers the portion of such notch adjacent the outer extremity of the arm, said cap having an opening which when it is in place coincides with a portion of said notch and so affords passage for the wiring, means for supporting from the arm the device to which the Wiring is connected, and means for securing said cap or ornamental part upon the arm Which also serves for securing said supporting means.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of December, 1912.

WVILFRID LUMLEY.

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Faun C. MAXIIEIMER, BENJ. F. H. TI-IORWARD Copies 0! this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. 0. 

